Showing posts with label Varnish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Varnish. Show all posts

Monday, June 19, 2017

Restricting Access at in Varnish Server Wide to Admin Areas

There are lots of ways to implement access controls and additional security on your hosting. I recently implemented a very restrictive but easy to manage implementation for our FreeBSD server that runs everything through Varnish. I could have placed this restriction in Apache via .HTACCESS files or global rules but placing them in Varnish they execute earlier and have less server overhead and ensure there are no caching related flaws.

Monday, February 6, 2017

Configure SSL Termination with Varnish Caching and HTTP/2

To create the fastest web pages possible in a LAMP stack can be a bit tricky.  This document covers configureing blazing fast HTTPS sites on Freebsd with Apache, Varnish, Nginx, PHP, Mysql and letsencrypt.sh.  Of course you can swap out the PHP/Mysql parts as needed, or even use your own certificates instead of lets encrypt.sh as you need.